Where to go this weekend? Quiet leisure time at Lake Shirakaba.

In the melting summer of 2022, I'm not in the mood for floating seas or stoic mountains. What will surely suit such a mood is a lake. Lake Shirakaba, located in Chino, Nagano, where the "Lake Resort" is conceived, is not a place where you go to do something with a purpose. It is simply a place to drift. The lake taught me how to spend leisure time, not leisure time, by chewing time and savoring space.

Photo_Kengo Inuzuka
Edit_Yuka Koga

I'm going to go to the lake.

The sensation of drifting means, in essence, to concentrate on the object in front of you. If you direct your attention, which tends to be distracted during the day, to a single point on the lake, you will feel a pleasant sense of fatigue and satisfaction by the time you return home.

Next time you go out, how about a lake, not the ocean or a river .